East Branch Octoraro Creek at Christiana, PA - 01578340
Available data
Continuous data
Daily data
Field measurements
Discrete sample data
The table below summarizes the discrete field and laboratory sample results that have been collected at this monitoring location. The sample results can be downloaded from the Download Discrete Sample Data page or by clicking the observed property link in each row of the table. The sample data are now identified by observed property, replacing the parameter and pcode USGS has used for many years. Additional information and explanation is provided in the Observed Properties and Parameter Codes section of the Code Dictionary tools .
The summary of sample data table is produced with the summary service API
Characteristic group | Observed property | Total number of results | Total number of activities | Start date | End date |
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Information | Agency analyzing sample | 56 | 56 | 1970-06-08 | 1997-10-31 |
Information | World Meteorological Organization (WMO) weather code | 13 | 13 | 1983-10-28 | 1997-10-31 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Calcium, water, filtered | 21 | 21 | 1973-10-09 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Calcium, water, unfiltered, recoverable | 5 | 5 | 1970-06-08 | 1972-10-23 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Magnesium, water, filtered | 21 | 21 | 1973-10-09 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Magnesium, water, unfiltered, recoverable | 5 | 5 | 1970-06-08 | 1972-10-23 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Potassium, water, filtered | 21 | 21 | 1973-10-09 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Potassium, water, unfiltered, recoverable | 5 | 5 | 1970-06-08 | 1972-10-23 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Sodium, water, filtered | 21 | 21 | 1973-10-09 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Sodium, water, unfiltered, recoverable | 5 | 5 | 1970-06-08 | 1972-10-23 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), water | 21 | 21 | 1973-10-09 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Sodium fraction of cations, water | 21 | 21 | 1973-10-09 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals | Hydrogen ion, water, unfiltered, calculated | 32 | 32 | 1970-06-08 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals | Acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) as calcium carbonate, water, unfiltered, fixed endpoint (EP) (pH 4.5) titration, field | 17 | 17 | 1973-10-09 | 1991-10-24 |
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals | Acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) as calcium carbonate, water, unfiltered, fixed endpoint (EP) (pH 4.5) titration, laboratory | 2 | 2 | 2011-11-03 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals | Acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) as calcium carbonate, water, unfiltered, inflection-point titration, field | 7 | 7 | 1992-11-09 | 2011-11-03 |


USGS Parameter Group | Data Types | Start Date | End Date |
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Information | Water-quality | 1970-06-08 | 1997-10-31 |
Inorganics, Major, Metals | Water-quality | 1970-06-08 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals | Water-quality | 1970-06-08 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals | Water-quality | 1973-10-09 | 2017-11-15 |
Inorganics, Minor, metals | Water-quality | 1970-06-08 | 2017-11-15 |
Microbiological | Water-quality | 1970-06-08 | 1980-11-03 |
Nutrient | Water-quality | 1970-06-08 | 2017-11-15 |
Organics, PCBs | Water-quality | 1986-11-20 | 1994-11-21 |
Organics, other | Water-quality | 1977-11-02 | 1994-11-21 |
Organics, pesticide | Water-quality | 1986-11-20 | 1994-11-21 |
Physical | Water-quality | 1970-06-08 | 2017-11-15 |
Population/Community | Water-quality | 1970-06-08 | 1997-10-31 |
Sediment | Water-quality | 1970-06-08 | 1971-10-18 |
n/a | Site Visits | 1982-10-27 | 2017-11-15 |
n/a | USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site | 2012-01-01 | 2012-01-01 |
Monitoring location 01578340 is associated with a Stream in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1970 are available online.
Metadata Element | Location Metadata | Metadata Code |
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Agency
|
U.S. Geological Survey | USGS |
Site identification number
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01578340 | n/a |
Site name
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East Branch Octoraro Creek at Christiana, PA | n/a |
Site type
|
Stream
|
ST |
DMS latitude | 395657 | n/a |
DMS longitude | 0755938 | n/a |
Decimal latitude | 39.9492708 | n/a |
Decimal longitude | -75.9935614 | n/a |
Latitude-longitude method
|
Interpolated from MAP. | M |
Latitude-longitude accuracy
|
Unknown or unspecified. | U |
Latitude-longitude datum
|
North American Datum of 1927 | NAD27 |
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum | North American Datum of 1983 | NAD83 |
District
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Pennsylvania | 42 |
State
|
Pennsylvania | 42 |
County
|
Chester County | 029 |
Country | US | n/a |
Land net location description | n/a | |
Name of location map | PARKESBURG | n/a |
Scale of location map | 24000 | n/a |
Altitude of Gage/land surface | n/a | |
Method altitude determined | n/a | |
Altitude accuracy | n/a | |
Altitude datum
|
n/a | |
Subbasin hydrologic unit
|
Lower Susquehanna | 02050306 |
Drainage basin
|
n/a | |
Topographic setting
|
n/a | |
Flags for instruments at site | NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN | n/a |
Date of first construction
|
n/a | |
Date site established or inventoried | n/a | |
Drainage area
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11.80 square miles | n/a |
Contributing drainage area | n/a | |
Time Zone abbreviation | EST | n/a |
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
|
Y | n/a |
Data reliability
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n/a | |
Data-other GW files | NNNNNNNN | n/a |
National aquifer | n/a | |
Local aquifer | n/a | |
Local aquifer type
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n/a | |
Well depth | n/a | |
Hole depth
|
n/a | |
Source of depth data | n/a | |
Project number | n/a |